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CHARLES H.

PATENT OFFICE.

eoonwm, OFWATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, n ssieivonv TO THE VVATERBURY' BUTTON COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of. Letters Patent No. 253,370, dated February 7, 1882.

Application filed December 15, 1881. (N model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. Goonwnv, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Gonnecticuahave invented new Improvements in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the sam'e,

1;) and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in C Figure 1, the several parts which make the button; Fig. 2, central section of the button complete, Fig. 3,.central section of the button as attached.

This invention relates to an improvementin that class of buttons which carry in themselves means' for securing them to the'garment; and it consists in a button constructed,

with a tubular neck to form a bearing upon.

the surface to which the button is lobe attached, an eyelett-h'roug-h said tubular neck, its flanged endwithin the button, its other end projecting beyond the neck, so as to pass 2 through the thing'to which the button is to be I attached and be turned down upon the opposite side;v also, in a recessed collar on the reverse side to which the button is to be attached, through which the eyelet passes and 0 set down into the recess of the collar, as more fully hereinafter described.

The button proper consistsof a cup-shaped disk, at, and a cup-shaped cap, b, which is placed over the disk at and closed down upon its under side, and so as to leave a space between the cap and the said disk,;as seen in Fig. 2. Into the disk at, before the two parts a b are closed together, the neck 0 is secured.

This neck consists of a flanged tube,'the un- 0 flanged end contracted, so as to form a shoulder upon which-the disk at will set, the end of the tube extending through the disk, so as to be turned down upon the inside of the disk, as seen at d, Fig. 2, the flanged end being dis- 5 tant from the disk or back it according to-the length required for the neck or shank, the

flange forming a base or bearing to-rest upon the surface to whichthe button is to be attached. Through this tubular neck a long eyelet, e, is inserted, the flanged end above the disk, as seen'in Fig. 2. Then the cap is closed upon the disk or back, and so as to take afirm bearing upon the flange-of theeyelet e, clamping, as it were, the flange between the cap or front and the turnedover portion (1 of the neck. The eyelet is of sufficient length to extend beyond the flange of the neck far enough to pass through the thing to which the button is. to be attached. This completes the butration through the material to which it is to be attached, (represented as A, Fig. 3,) and through this perforation insert the open -end of the eyelet 6. Then set that open end upon the reverse side, substantially as a common eyelet is set. The turned-over end of the eyelet often exposesa roughnessof edge, which wears upon the adjacent garment-a serious objection tothe class of button-fasteners which are secured in this manner. 'To overcome this difficulty I construct the collar f of cup shape, with a countersunk-like recess in the center, open through the collar corresponding to the diameter of the eyelet, the eyelet introduced through the ordinary flat collar but the end of the eyelet is struck into this recess, so that v the portion of the collar around the recess protects or incloses the edge of the eyelet and parts of the garment. This also firmly holds the edge of the collar down upon that side of the garment. This recessed collar may be used with eyelet-like button-fastenings other than that here shown. tion is not therefore limited to this particular button. 7 v

I claim- 1. The herein-described button, consisting of the metal back a, the hollow flange-neck c, 90 secured to said back, and the eyelet 0 through said neck and havin gits flange inside said back, combined with the cap b, closed over said back and upon the flange of the said eyelet, substantially as described. 5

2. Thecombination of a button provided with an eyelet-like fastening with a collar on the reverse side constructed with'acountersunklike recess in its outer side to receive the turned- Witnesses GEO. W. TERRY,

FRED. L. TERRY.

ton. It is applied by simply making a perfo- 6o through the opening in the collar the same as prevents contact of that edge with the other This partof my invenover end of the eyelet, substantially as de [03 

